School rebuilt in nine weeks

A SCHOOL that was forced to close after the Grenfell fire has been rebuilt on a temporary site in just nine weeks.

Kensington Aldridge academy (KAA) was a £26 million secondary school complete with stateof-the-art facilities, but its 960 pupils were barred from the building, at the foot of Grenfell Tower, after the devastating blaze on June 14.

However, thanks to the efforts of more than 200 workers, a temporary school opened its doors on September 18 – ready for the new academic year.

The new school, known as KAA2, is just over a mile away in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Workers from Portakabin and the construction firm Mace worked from dawn until dusk to ensure the building would be ready for the new term.

Five KAA pupils died in the fire.